When the image is new, the world is new.
GASTON BACHELARDMan is an imagining being.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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Man is an imagining being.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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